Program Manager - Hickory, United States - Qualitrol

Description

Role:
R&D Program ManagerLocation: Glasgow Scotland Hybrid WFH and onsite. Will also consider fully remote in UK, Belgium, The Netherlands, Sweden or Poland. If remote, must be willing to travel to Glasgow once per month.
Excellent Pay and Benefits This is an outstanding place to workIt all starts with the people. You will love working with colleagues who have a genuine desire to innovate and seek out complicated problems.

We each come into work every day trying to make the organization a little better than it was the day before.

We ask the tough questions and push each other to be courageous. This occurs in an environment that cultivates authenticity and clarity. We believe in absolute inclusion and diversity.

Qualitrol associates enjoy the autonomy, breadth of responsibility, and creativity that are typical in a medium-sized company, while sharing resources, standard methodologies, and career opportunities that are found in a Fortune 500 company like Fortive.

Your ImpactThe Program Manager will bring in new products/systems from strategic identification through commercialisation and production.

They will work with the engineering team to remain aligned on scope, manage risks, handle project issues, provide multi-functional communications, and lead the project team to success by using Fortive Business Systems (FBS).

Heres where youll demonstrate your proficiencies:
Use agile practices and scrum framework to deliver critical customer facing, enterprise system solutions.

Collaborate with multi-functional teams to deliver top-notch solutions to our global customers while building and maintaining strong working relationships across the organisation.

Gain a solid understanding of customer requirements and manage potential risks while controlling project timelines.
Support and convey importance of project documentation.
Present project status to executive leadership team.
Establish project rules, standard methodologies, and budget control.
Plan for the execution of quality assurance and organisational change.

Actively report to PMO Director the successes, areas for improvement and programs at risk in a timely manner to ensure corrective action.

Skills & ExperienceThe successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

Bachelors Degree in Engineering or Science related fieldExtensive experience as an engineering Program Manager with a full understanding of Project Management processes across platform level programs.

Clear understating of lean product development and systems development practices and lifecycles.
Ability to lead and work within multi-functional teams spanning multiple time zones.
Desire to work with a structured, process driven, and continuous improvement organisation.
Experience using Jira and Microsoft Suite, including MS Project.
Ability to produce high quality written reports and relevant presentations.